pycares is a Python module which provides an interface to c-ares. c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolutions asynchronously.
http://readthedocs.org/docs/pycares/
pycares currently bundles c-ares and as of pycares 1.0.0 this is a strong requirement. Upstream c-ares is not willing to apply a patch adding TTL support. I did apply the patch to the bundled c-ares, but unfortunately it breaks the ABI, so attempting to use a system provided c-ares is not possible.
Linux:
./build_inplace
Mac OSX:
(XCode needs to be installed) export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" ./build_inplace
Microsoft Windows (with Visual Studio 2008, 2010 or the Windows SDK):
./build_inplace
Microsoft Windows (with MinGW, not recommended):
(MinGW and MSYS need to be installed) ./build_inplace --compiler=mingw32
There are several ways of running the test ruite:
Run the test with the current Python interpreter:
From the toplevel directory, run:
python tests.py
Use Tox to run the test suite in several virtualenvs with several interpreters
From the toplevel directory, run:
tox -e py27,py33,py34
this will run the test suite on Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4 (you'll need to have them installed beforehand)
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <[email protected]>
Unless stated otherwise on-file pycares uses the MIT license, check LICENSE file.
Python >= 2.7 and >= 3.3 are supported. Other older versions might work too, but they are not actively tested.
If you'd like to contribute, fork the project, make a patch and send a pull request. Have a look at the surrounding code and please, make yours look alike :-)